<div class="gmail_quote">On 21 May 2011 19:41, Keith Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Banks, Vinge and Stross all try to deal with the problem of human<br>
characters living among gods. <br></blockquote><div><br>Take Look to Windward. I am inclined by all mean to feel sympathetic with the tragic position of Culture's adversaries - whose stance btw has nothing especially anti-tech - even though they are presented in the worst possible light.<br>
<br>Conversely, take Stross's Accelerando. How should we condone the incredibly parochial hostility to what is cavalierly defined the Vile Offspring which is expressed in the last part of the book?<br></div></div><br>
-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>